Colin Miller announced that the .NET Micro Framework SDK v4.3 has RTW'd. This has been in beta for a while, highlighted here in Oct 2014, Visual Studio 2013, VS "14" .NET Micro Framework Support is here! but now is finally, officially RTM NETMF 4.3 QFE2 releasedThe changes to NETMF 4.3 to…

Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI. My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott…

Today's project is cool fan created Windows 8.1 app for an area near and dear to my heart... Channel9 Blog Reader AppIntroductionThe app tutorial for Windows Blog Reader at msdn.com is out of date, the feed links don't work, and there are some other unknown problems. To Address that problem, I took…

Dan Thyer, Friend of the Blog, has written up another great post on our favorite topic, IoT... IoT for Home AutomationI built my own Internet of Things, IoT, home automation system that is controlling 30 different things with 4 different types of microcontrollers with nearly 150 commands. This…

Today's Hardware Friday is of a kind I've not seen before. Sure, we've seen the Chat to Hardware, Hardware to Chat projects, but I don't think I've seen that uses Lync and the Unified Communications Web API. Plus I've missing blogging about .Net Gadgeteer projects... :) Exploring the Internet of…

Given what we've seen so far this month, do you think 2015 is going to be something of an exciting year? Ya think? :P Coding4Fun BlogHello IoT...Lots of VS Extensions installed? Visual Studio [2013] Auto Updater...MonoGame, F# and Santa!Connect the Tiny Devices and IoT to Azure Dots with…

Been a long time since I've done any game dev posts, let alone one on a game engine. Today we're highlighting an engine that you might not have heard of, but looks very interesting and one you can build some amazing games with... Indie Tools: Free, open source Godot Engine seeks to compete with big…

Today's Visual Studio Extension is a Must Have for anyone doing presentations, screen casting or sharing. As the Visual Studio Ninja that you are, you know and live by your shortcut keys. But those just don't present well at all and will led to questions or viewer uncertainty. So what do you do?…

It feels like it's been a while since I've highlighted an image processing kind of project. I saw this post from Oliver Bennet and I thought; a) that's cool b) that's creepy c) but still cool. :) Oliver's post is great in that it starts simple and builds up to a complete working application... How…

One of the stars of last week's Windows 10 Event was undeniably Cortana. Today we are going to share not one, not two, but three different Cortana dev posts... First a post from Mike Taulty; Windows Phone 8.1, Continuing a Conversation Started with CortanaI wrote a little in this previous blog post…